Amotolongbo:
I could solve majority of these questions when I was in the equivalent class, JSS 2.

ogaaa, na lie joie.

I remember that programme. The best student in the quiz gets a bicycle!.. The good old days

Brunicekid:
Sbd me too...


But, I can tell you that we are really few that could do that at JSS2. I was at an NTA Mathematics E-tv program called "Work It Out", when I was in JSS2, and I won the episode I participated in. I doubt if the program is still airing on NTA again!

Amotolongbo:
We are too quick to judge and downplay our generation when we see things from the past.

To start with, in those days, majority of the people who attended schools then were the brilliant and average ones in the society. The dull ones weren’t seen in school. Unlike this our generation when every child is expected in school.
Many JSS 2 students nowadays, a class equivalent to the middle V can also attempt these questions perfectly.

Education has deteriorated, but this generation is not so worse as you have said

It's human nature. the past always has a way of embellishing itself.

Timijo:
Mathematics is not the only subject that provides critical thinking skills. All the schools' subjects can be used to develop critical thinking skills in learners. It only depends on how they are used by teachers and that is why we have open questions and close questions in education. Teachers who want to foster critical thinking skills in their students often use open questions. You need to understand the four C's 21st century skills.

go back to the questions and re-read them, both the mathematics and English language are for critical thinking, stop arguing, why would university graduates will not be able to solve elementary questions meant for Jss 2 ,not as 3

which type of modernisation or syllabus that warrant that? if ur back ground is well grounded during ur secondary school days, no amount of future changes can stop you.

As a thirteen years old student, can you solve those questions?

farem:
How many graduates of nowadays can attempt these papers successfully?

I'm a maths teacher, my students in js2 can solve those questions

ilemona4u:
I would have really loved for you to continue. Am really enjoying this piece. As an unemployed young graduate, this is the best thing I have read this year

Thank you for the compliment. I wrote an article about life skills for 21st-century learners. I am a graduate of science education but I am pursuing another degree in English language and literature in a foreign university.

my prof. told me that they managed to get 40 those days in University, that he hates seeing students having grade A. the person that owns these questions didn't pass them if I'm lying tell to come and answer them. do they thinks we are as stupid as they were? common Nigeria they can't move forward with all the genius they called themselves.

Fiscus105:



go back to the questions and re-read them, both the mathematics and English language are for critical thinking, stop arguing, why would university graduates will not be able to solve elementary questions meant for Jss 2 ,not as 3

which type of modernisation or syllabus that warrant that? if ur back ground is well grounded during ur secondary school days, no amount of future changes can stop you.

I still maintain my stand on the subject, mathematics and the English language are not the only school subjects that foster creative thinking. All the subjects in our curriculum can be used to achieve that. What we should be talking about should be about developing and raising competent teachers/lecturers who can help to develop these required skills in students for them to be able to fit into the demands of the 21st-century labour market after graduation.

Khd95:
buhari failed woefully

thats why he tendered nepa bill as certificate

So funny

As I Dey read am sef I don solve am

Nigerian educational system is too abstract. Not practical oriented or real life oriented. We should include more technical knowledge .

We often dont know the practical uses of the knowledge we have.


Making education free is irrelevant if you do not make it mandatory for all kids to be at school up to the completion of the senior secondary certificate. A lot of young ones are still house help or learning trades at a very young age earning money for their parents (drop out).

And these kids need to rest (which one is 2 weeks break after 4+ months in school).

JSS1 to JSS3 recommended text on computer studies is just repetition. Same as year 1 to 6 computer text. Introduce basic coding and robotics. Curriculum needs review : a lot of archaic and redundant study.

Introduce the use of video learning tools or documentary to highlight the old ways of doing things. Such topics should never be graded (eg use of typewriters).

The list is plenty. We had a complete wood workshop, learnt about plains, joints and screws from textbooks and never touched the real objects(just for show). We could have been building tables as the outcome of what we learnt.

farem:


A harmless question was asked and you can provide any answer but this epistle.
Go ask them ; many of their junior ones are still being helped by contracted home teachers when they are still idle, doing nothing. It boils down to the fact that, they can't really/successfully prepare their junior ones for common JS 3 (Junior WAEC)

How many application letters have I received from them? The worst comes when you ask them to write it in your presence- It is not about speaking English. That doesn't require a bit of education to come by

Lol... you called his answer an epistle while your response has more words. His answer was straight to the point. He answered and backed up his answer. You may not agree with everything he said but you didn't have to downplay his response cause of that, just give your own argument.

farem:
How many graduates of nowadays can attempt these papers successfully?

shey u dey look for who u wan kee ba?

Na pol science i read and whenever I see maths,make I no lie,na sweat dey comot from my face.

post=101256012:
75!

The good ol' days......

Reminiscent times......

Gone are those days,
When men were boys,
When women were girls,
And when virginity was...................!

The good ol' days weren't any better.

It is all a mirage looking through the past from a new lens.

Oh! How times flies, I only did 1 to 5. Hmmm that year sha

farem:
These were exam questions in1946 for 'Middle IV' which is the equivalent of JS2 now, I believe. I wonder how many of our graduates now could pass these exams easily. No wonder our secondary school leavers of the past could think deeper and ask questions better than many people that carry themselves around today as graduates. Sad.

I am of the opinion that we need to restructure our educational system by strengthening free primary and secondary education. We need to have more technical schools to encourage the trades. As for tertiary education for our youth, we need to develop a realistic, reliable and sustainable funding model that will ensure independence of the university system and also quality delivery therefrom. For now, we seem to be obsessed with building our universities on large expanse of lands with buildings all over the place but fail to equip and supply laboratories therein.

I think we need to restructure our educational system to aim at bringing out people at all levels that can create jobs. Not just job-seekers.

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So how come the older generation who are/were able to answer these questions ended up not being able to build a country with a future.

They have been unable to provide basic infrastructure for decades.

Wow

it will be foolish to compare the old generation to this new generation....... Antony joshua vs 9ice

...all the Maths
Almost all the English...

A good JSS 3 student will be able to handle the maths section. No comment on the English section, but if taught in school a good student should attempt the English too.

Amotolongbo:
We are too quick to judge and downplay our generation when we see things from the past.

To start with, in those days, majority of the people who attended schools then were the brilliant and average ones in the society. The dull ones weren’t seen in school. Unlike this our generation when every child is expected in school.
Many JSS 2 students nowadays, a class equivalent to the middle V can also attempt these questions perfectly.

Education has deteriorated, but this generation is not so worse as you have said

Don't mind him, he just wants to be mischievous. There's nothing different from what is being taught today in JSS 2. That was same Mathematics' topics I taught JSS 2 students in Sokoto last year. Even the fractions were as well taught in JSS 1.

tommy589:


The standard of education now is actually higher. Let me limit my understanding to primary and secondary education that I only had opportunity of acquiring.

For you to see it differently,you will need to go through primary and secondary books of today and the volume of works schools give students weekly. You may find most of them not to be good in current affairs or read outside their school books,but their standard is way higher.

I remember Daily Times newspaper used to have an editorial "This day in history" it was about republishing same day editorial they printed decades ago. I read one printed in the 1930s,it was this complain falling standard of education. That falling standard complained in the 30s produced China Achebe, Wole Soyinka and multitudes of international award winning professionals

The standard has certainly fallen and would continue to. The very fact that this education was given us by foreigners and is not in our language means it must continue to deteriorate since we didn't create it, neither is it an expression of our image.

The only thing that has improved is the ability to speak good English from young age. Many people have already pointed out that students these days can speak very good English but can't write it. This's what is deceiving many. Education doesn't mean just speaking good English, otherwise, I'll like to know whether the Chineses, Japanese, Russians, etc aren't educated.

And it's not about work load given to the students, rather it's about how the teacher has been able to groom the student, such that the student is able to CONCEPTUALIZE the topic in a way that student would be able to learn more on their own about what the teacher said in the classroom. Education or learning is like someone going to, example; No. 76 Ade street, Oshodi, Lagos, Nigeria. But the person doesn't know the road.

The job of the reacher is to give the person (student) direction to get to the address. Once the teacher has done that, he/she has done their job as long as it was well explained to the student. It's the job of the student to go and find the address himself/herself. In the course of looking for the address, if the student is confused at any point in the journey he/she should ask questions. We all do this if we're lost or confused while going to an address we haven't been to before.

A good student is the one able to ask more people on the way to add to the information he/she already have from the teacher until they locate the address. A good student is the one who's able to learn how to do that on their own. This would mean, though, that a good teacher would be the one to be able to make students to learn how to learn.

What they can immediately do to at least ameliorate the situation.

1. Nigerian schools should reinstitute grading of students in classrooms, such that each student would know their score at the end of the academic term and even announce the 1st, 2nd, 3rd position to the notice of the school. This used to be the norm when we were in school. It has a huge psychological significance on the students to compete on something positive instead of competing who'll be the cult leader.

2. Introduce students to a syllabus at the beginning of each new class and make them understand that they're expected to cover everything inside that syllabus. They should know what their exams are based on.

3. Stop allowing certain part of the country a lower mark for entry into secondary or university. The standard must be the same for South, North, West, East. Allowing lower grade in certain parts of the country automatically means reducing the standard of education nationwide. It would overall gradually affect the rest of the national educational pool, whether or not anybody in the system understand how it happens. This may actually be the culprit.

Remember, I said this's just what could be done to help the situation but it's not the ultimate solution. The ultimate solution is scrap the whole thing called education and replace it with what we create. Just like Nollywood movies replaced foreign ones and now Nigerian music has replaced foreign ones in our clubs and pubs. Same thing should be done in education.

If anybody is interested in knowing more, read the book on my signature.

Fiscus105:


I insist and I'm 100% sure of what I'm saying, to proof me wrong, save the questions and give it to 10 different higher institution graduates, (university, poly, nce etc) come back and give us ur findings.

I don’t need to find out what I already know, I can’t speak for north. In the school I left, most of the graduates can take this maths bro, we mark for ourselves.

is buhari not from those days abi sheu Sani and lai Muhammed,garba sheu do they even speak like person wey even go school

post=101256012:
75!

The good ol' days......

Reminiscent times......

Gone are those days,
When men were boys,
When women were girls,
And when virginity was...................!

I so much love born without a silver spoon. Memories of the good old days of when boys were still innocent.

Amotolongbo:
We are too quick to judge and downplay our generation when we see things from the past.

To start with, in those days, majority of the people who attended schools then were the brilliant and average ones in the society. The dull ones weren’t seen in school. Unlike this our generation when every child is expected in school.
Many JSS 2 students nowadays, a class equivalent to the middle V can also attempt these questions perfectly.

Education has deteriorated, but this generation is not so worse as you have said

Thank you bro, people just insult our generation like say non of our graduates are making waves outside this country. Despite dumping my certificate for painting due to unemployment for years. I will solve all this maths without touching a pen or paper, n I didn’t even make 2:1 oooo

Can you apply the ax + bx = y, to solve any of our day to day common nigeria challenges. Its not a matter of theoretical teaching but how can we use it to solve Ajaokuta Steel industry or use it to build Mambilla hydropower project. Any education that cannot solve societal challenges is at best a charade.

lereinter:


Oga serious jss2 students will answer such questions

do u want to make a bet with me, you would hardly find a jss2 student that can solve that math question, even ss2 student would struggle with it

iammo:



One major factor is that JSS2 students are quite matured with higher brain power back then, than now that you have 12 years old in JSS2.

don't mind that person, only few jss 2 students can solve the math question giving there most especially question 1, 3 and 5.

This is a simple question for cowbell competition participants.